The Decline and Fall of the British Empire

http://www.amazon.com/Decline-British-Empire-1781-1997-Vintage/dp/0307388417
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview2
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3668950/Britains-accidental-empire.html
http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/10/the-sun-did-set.html

Preview
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_3wbwj4OjsC&pg=PA667&lpg=PA667&dq=the+decline+and+fall+of+the+british+empire+image&source=bl&ots=cyrLPCAkTq&sig=vIt2YjYC2X3AlXJ85qqOaXzf0og&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BNt0UvHfFonNsATN4ID4BA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

Comparison with Rome
http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/reada/britainfall.pdf
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14003007M/The_decline_and_fall_of_the_British_Empire

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqNqHAOYmlo

Of Interest
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/13/ten_lessons_on_empire